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The position of the artist if humble. He is essentially a channel.


Piet Mondrian

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the impulses it thwarts:
a healthy sex life mitigates
the lust ...
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where it is easy to see
the cryptic admonishment
T.T.T

W...
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prove their worth by fighting back.
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PIET HEIN Here lies, extinguished in his prime,/ a victim of modernity:/ but yesterday he hadn't time--/ and n...
PIET HEIN The universe may / be as great as they say. / But it wouldn't be missed/ if it didn't exist.
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Thou knowest not
Is in a sense
Omniscience.
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for milliards and milliards and milliards
of particl...
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by getting excited and vexed.
You'll always be ...
PIET HEIN SMALL THINGS
& GREAT

He that lets
the small things bind him
leaves the...
PIET HEIN WHAT PEOPLE MAY THINK

Some people cower
and wince and shrink,
owing to fear of<...
PIET HEIN It's not under control yet.
PIET SMITH Living is
a thing you do
now or never -
which do you?
PIET HEIN Shepherds use religion to fight wars, sheep fight over religion.
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